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Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court ruled against restoring basic services to a closed Australian-run detention centre where 600 refugees have refused to leave. While the court found the refugees human rights had been breached, it rejected a bid to restore water, electricity and food supplies to Manus Island camp on the basis that there was alternative accommodation for them to stay. Refugees and rights groups have said they would not move to transit camps for fears they would be attacked by locals or resettled elsewhere. The United Nations previously described the situation as a “looming humanitarian crisis”.

A public health emergency was declared in Delhi, India, with the Indian Medical Association saying pollution was at an “alarming” level. The U.S. embassy website said levels of harmful pollutants, known as PM2.5, reached levels more than double the threshold authorities class as hazardous, according to The Guardian.

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Hindu nationalists are beating up Muslim farmers and seizing their cows on the grounds that the animals are headed for the slaughterhouse. But there’s another side to the religiously tinged violence: The stolen cows are being given to Hindu farmers. A Reuters special report goes behind the lines of the “cow vigilantes.” – Charles Anderson

The fired Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont has written a piece for The Guardianexplaining he has fears that him and his colleagues will not receive a fair hearing in Spanish courts and said it is a “colossal outrage” that he and 13 colleagues were being investigated over possible charges including sedition and rebellion for their roles in the Catalan independence referendum, which Spain declared illegal. – Harry Ridgewell

“The vultures profiting from Puerto Rico’s misery are unlikely to go hungry; the same can’t be said for the people who live on the island,” The New Yorker looks at the role of aggressive debt investors in Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. – Jack Barton

Ahead of the one year anniversary of President Trump’s election, the Council on Foreign Relations has written a terrifically informative backgrounder on the multiple federal inquiries into Russia’s involvement in the U.S. elections. All – or at least most – of your questions answered. – Lydia MorrishWhat the WikiTribune community’s up to

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